DEATH BED ENCOUNTERS

This is not your typical “what happens when we die?” report, but rather an outline of what health care providers have personally witnessed, aside from the physical indications when death occurs. 

Fifty five percent of nurses have witnessed unexplained “end of life” phenomenon with their patients.

(This was the statistic of a survey of one thousand nurses.) 

Roughly, within 72 hours before a terminally ill patient dies, many of them begin to talk about a “journey”. It has been reported that patients will often ask for their coat, shoes, bus tickets or even a map and make other references to a departure. 

Some patients say they are “ready”, and even start to look much healthier even though their demise is clearly and knowingly imminent. You’ve probably read or heard about this before. Or even witnessed it first-hand. But did you know about these other components of this phenomenon widely-reported by health-care professionals? 

⧭ Misty vapors, lights and silvery cords can be visible immediately at the time of death: 

There have been many instances when those surrounding the dying person have seen a silvery ‘cord ‘, seemingly coming out of the area around the patient’s head or chest and going in an upward direction, basically through the ceiling. This cord is thought to connect the body to the soul and upon the moment of death, the cord becomes severed, thereby visibly disappearing from sight. Caregivers have reported seeing this happen time and time again. This has been theorized to be the moment the soul leaves the body. 

Instead of a cord, ethereal mists and vapors can be present and are described as beautiful, sparkly and pristine, and also disappear upward at the time of death. Often, they have been seen taking on the shape of the body before dissipating. The mist is sometimes referred to as “soul mist” and is thought to be the life force of a human, finally exiting the body.   

                     

There have also been incidents where the mist was connected to the body by the silvery cord, which faded away as the soul left the body. 

⧭ Dying patients report they have had a glimpse of the afterlife: 

Sometimes the witnesses have reported their patients almost seemingly exist in two realms of reality and have expanded awareness of what is about to happen. They speak calmly (and sometimes excitedly) about catching fleeting glimpses of the afterlife and feel drawn towards it. 

⧭ Dying patients report they can see deceased loved ones, often in the upper corner of the room: 

 They have conversations with them and think others in the room can see them, too but most often, no one else can. There have been exceptions, though. 

⧭ Dying patients report they can see other “people” they aren’t familiar with: 

They have calm conversations with these “people/beings” (allegedly some type of “angels” or after-life forms) and claim to clearly see them in their hospital rooms, and don’t necessarily think it is out of the ordinary. The patients often tell their caregivers, family members and chaplains that “so-and-so” is waiting to take them home. 

Although many would have you believe the dying are simply uttering nonsense brought on from lack of oxygen, a dying brain, advanced disease or heavy medications, a doctor who has seen more than 2,000 deaths in her career has stated that for most of those deaths, the patients pretty much talk of the same thing: that they will soon be going home, their dead relatives are waiting for them and they are content with that. 

If the experiences were caused by declining brain activity, the patients wouldn’t ALL report the same thing and the reports would most likely be even stranger (visions of purple unicorns, travelling to far off lands and imagining they were even different people). The patients also would not likely be consistent with what they saw. For example, a man very near death might say he is going on a trip and his father has come for him, and he may say that every day for a week. Someone experiencing a lack of oxygen may not recall from one day to the next what they envisioned. 

This collected evidence has been consistent for at least the last two hundred years. 

Can you believe what someone says when they are in an advanced state of dying? You may not believe one person, but when thousands report very similar accounts, it is hard to refute it.

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